originally aired 1949(sfx: wolf howl) announcer: when the spirit dies but the dead live, the dark...

CBC Stag of 34 e Series - Dracula

CBC- Stage Series DRACULA:

Originally aired 1949 Transcribed by Ben Dooley for “Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear” old time radio recreations. www.ttdyradio.com

CAST: SFX: ANNOUNCER- Wolf howl JONATHAN HARKER Horse & carriage PASSENGER Whip crack PASSENGER #2 Wolves howling GYPSY Large wooden door creaking. COACHMAN Many door locks. DRACULA Rooster Crowing VAMPIRE BRIDE Baby crying. VAMPIRE BRIDE #2 Banging on door WOMAN (crying for baby) Door Open & close VAN HELSING Crickets DR. VINCENT Large metal door (open and) close

DR. SEWARD MINNIE (sobbing)

Bolts on door SWALES (slight cockney servant) Pulling nails from a crate. RENFIELD Hitting stake GUARD Gunshot GUARD #2 Glass break LUCY rats MINA

(SFX: Wolf howl) ANNOUNCER: When the spirit dies but the dead live, the dark guard of the

night… is a beast. (SFX: Wolf howl.) (MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Stage 49, item 30. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Dramatized for

radio by George Salverson. Starring Lorne Greene as Count Dracula, and Alan King as Jonathan Harker. Produced and directed by Andrew Allen, with an original music score composed and conducted by Lucio Agusini. George Salverson’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

(MUSIC CONTINUES) (MUSIC: EERIE ORGAN) HARKER: This is the journal of Jonathan Harker. Should any read, convey it’s

warning to those who would believe and act, and convey it to those who mourn me. For I have written my last words.

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HARK

ukovina, rocking and

quickly! More quickly! The sun sinks!

HARK rkness is near. And watching me with

man.

PASS ritz, when we took the coach, there was much attention

PASS

superstitions. And it is sometimes

HARKle firm of London’s solicitors. I am here to perform a

this client, sir?

HARKER: Must we travel through these potholes as though the devil were after

PASS ve it. These shall be never repaired, lest the

il St. George’s Day, is it?

(MUSIC) (SFX: HORSE & CARRIAGE)

ER: Transylvania, May the 4th, 1897, a day of a strange, wild journey to carry me on my mission, is travel among these motionless mountains andlong sleeping castles always pursued so recklessly, so desperately, our Slovak driver lashing his horses, the coach from Bbouncing, the passengers crying for more speed.

PASSENGER #2: MoreCOACH: Hurry! whip! (SFX: WHIP CRACK)

ER: Crying for more speed as daeyes that are somehow troubled.

(SFX: HORSE & CARRIAGE CONTINUES) PASSENGER #1: Obviously you are The EnglishHARKER: The Englishman? Yes, I am English.

ENGER #1: In Biston the Englishman

HARKER: But why, sir, is it so remarkable to be English? ENGER #1: I do not know why? But I can tell you that this wild country, the ancient battleground of Bulgard and Turk is not only a melting pot of races, it is a melting pot of all the world’sremarkable what an Englishman will do. ER: There’s nothing remarkable in what I am doing. I represent a

completely respectabservice for a client.

PASSENGER #1: And who isHARKER: A Count Dracula. PASSENGER #2: (gasps) Driver! More quickly! COACH: Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. ("For the dead travel fast.")

us? ENGER #1: Tradition would haTurk consider it a warlike act.

PASSENGER #2: Herr Englishman, it is ev


PASS e world have full Herr Englishman?

PASS re from London and I

HARKhen I leave you

ices to the Count of Castle Dracula.

w!

PASS aps our fellow passengers fear the dark. Or perhaps the il is after us.

HARK es walking and my bones aching.

ypsies. E)

piece.

HARK

COAC d you to leave the coach. The

sies don’t seem afraid.

l.

GYPS believes only what he sees. Will he

HARKER: (innocently) Oh yes, of course. ENGER #2: Do you not know at midnight all evil in thsway. Do you know where you go,

HARKER: I do not understand you, sir. ENGER #1: Our friend has had his say. You, sir, afrom Prague. I fear we find these people amusing ER: they seem to be afraid of me, I don’t know why. The Count will have

his carriage meet the coach at the entrance of Borgo Pass. Tto perform certain serv

PASSENGER #2: Driver! COACH: I know, I kno(SFX: WHIP CRACK) HARKER: I cannot understand this bone-shattering speed.

ENGER #1: PerhDev

(MUSIC) ER: Darkness, with the feel of the mountains hiding in it, a long, hard

climb toward Borgo Pass. The horsCampfires near the road. G

(SFX: HORSE & CARRIAG(MUSIC: Gypsies singing) HARKER: I am going to walk aCOACH: What are you doing?

ER: I am going to walk while the hill has slowed us down to a reasonable pace. H: I forbid it! I am responsible. I forbi

wolves. The wolves are savage here. HARKER: Those GypCOACH: I forbid it! HARKER: Oh, very wel(MUSIC: Gypsy violin)

Y: A stranger passes in the night. He see what he can not believe? (laughs)


not expected after all. Stay with us to

ame at such a speed, I am sure that…

COAC he Herr Englishman was… in a hurry.

PASS

ER #2: (frightened) Herr Englishman, if you must do this, take… .

(SFX:(MUSHARK

d the

idnight found us in the courtyard of a vast ruined e tall black windows came no ray of light. The silent

ay, left me in darkness before the

Until… KS OPEN)

house. Enter freely and of your own will. racula?

welcome, Mr. Harker.

COACH: There is the road. There is Borgo Pass. You see, there is for you no carriage.

HARKER: The arrangements were very precise. PASSENGER #2: The Herr Englishman is

Bukovina. Come. Let us wait no longer.HARKER: WE c(MUSIC: VIOLIN SUDDENLY STOPS) DRACULA: You are early tonight, coachmen (MEN REACT)

H: The… TDRACULA: That is why, I suppose, you wished him to go on to Bukovina.

ENGER #1: That is a strange looking fellow. When he smiles, those sharp white teeth.

PASSENGthis… this crucifix. For you mother’s sake. Wear it. And God go with you WOLF HOWLS) IC)

ER: The coach, with its frightened passengers swept into the darkness onits way to Bukovina, leaving me with the stranger who had so suddenly materialized. Without a word, he motioned me to a carriage which stoosilent in the shadows. As we drove upward through the Pass, the cry ofwolves followed until mcastle, from whoscoachman set me down and drove awmassive iron doors. And there I awaited.

(SFX: WOLF HOWL) HARKER: Waited. And waited. (SFX: LOCKS TUMBLE AND LARGE WOODEN DOOR CREEDRACULA: Welcome to my HARKER: Count… er, DDRACULA: I am Dracula. And I bid youHARKER: Yes. Thank you. (SFX: DOOR CLOSES) HARKER: The door is very… effective.


A: It once frustrated a Turkish army.

DRAC

nding stair and down the stone floor of another endless

silent coachman was… Dracula.

ot join you at supper. But I

nderstand.

HARK en in here, the sound of the wolves. A: Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make.

DRAC

(MUSHARK rowing tension) Dracula smiled. The firelight leaked and fled about

oom from the bright red lips and the sharp white pointed teeth. I

e aware of something else. I pushed my food away. My God! His

(MUSDRAC h you have procured for

a ses close at hand. One being

DRAC the house? Carfax? an

ne keep attached to an old chapel.

DRACULHARKER: (slightly nervous joking) It wouldn’t do to loose the key, would it?

ULA: Come, sir. It is late. And my servants are not available. Let me see to your comforts myself.

(MUSIC) HARKER: His servants. I wonder if the servants existed as I followed along the

passage of a great wipassage. Even Dracula’s

(MUSIC) DRACULA: You will, I trust, excuse me that I do n

have dined already. HARKER: I quite u(SFX: WOLVES HOWLING)

ER: EvDRACULHARKER: Music.

ULA: Ah, sir. You dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter. IC)

ER: (gthe ancient rdropped my eyes to his hands. The nails were long and pointed. I remembered, as he greeted me, how strong they were and how cold. I becambreath. IC STING) ULA: Now tell me of London and the house whic

me. HARKER: (composing himself) Yes. Well it’s in a suburb Purfleet and it’s called

Carfax. It contains, in all, some twenty acres, heavily treed, surrounded by solid stone wall. There are very few other houa large mansion used as a private lunatic asylum. ULA: And

HARKER: Much as you requested. Very large of medieval times. Includingancient sto


uld

HARK

DRAC ast of brave races who fought, as a lion hose fury swept the earth till the dying

rewolves themselves had come, that in their veins ran

desert. Fools. What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, se blood is in these veins?

DRAC

(MUSwhat amused at my first

usual, person. He seems to be

(SFX: ECHO VAMPIRE WOMAN LAUGHING) s not appeared. The yellow

How strange. A London ow which overlooks a thousand foot cliff, in this room

a great and beautiful lady. I

y haunting, echoed) Darling.

ur most desirable guest.

losely? (echo fades) Now, do

DRACULA: Good. I, myself, am of an old family. To live in a new house wo… kill me. ER: I understand, but really, sir, Carfax is little better than a disused

dungeon. ULA: I belong to the past. A p

fights. For lordship. The Huns, wpeoples thought the wethe blood of old witches, who, expelled from Scythia, mated with the devils in the who

(SFX: ROOSTER CROWS) ULA: But you will forgive me. I have kept you until morning and you are

tired. IC)

thHARKER: May, the 12 . Many days here, and someemotions, for the Count is an interesting, if unaway all day, but through the night he has questioned me closely about England, about banking and shipping procedures. And has obtained the names of various solicitors who might assist him in his proposed move.

HARKER: Tonight, for the first time, the Count hamoonlight almost dims the lamp by which I write. solicitor, by this wind

one. of ancient beauty, al(SFX: ECHO VAMPIRE WOMAN LAUGHING) HARKER: Alone? Yes, for there are no servants here. (MUSIC UNDER SCENE)HARKER: This must once have been the room of

almost imagine I hear… VAMPIRE WOMAN: (slightlHARKER: Who’s there? VAMPIRE WOMAN: OHARKER: Where are you! VAMPIRE WOMAN: Here. Shall I come more c

you see me? HARKER: (gasps) Yes.


ere.

, handsome.

) Yes. I must be.

m some forgotten age. s for love.

.

r? a trance) Yes.

e moonlight.

touch it, if you like.

ur love?

d.

HARK WOMAN: Would you like me to kiss you?

l. I will. Let me show you love you’ve never

VAMPIRE WOMAN: I want you to see me. It is lonely hHARKER: I cannot imagine you could be lonely. VAMPIRE WOMAN: But I am. You are so love. StrongHARKER: Forgive me. I seem… unable… to get up. VAMPIRE WOMAN: Perhaps you are sleepy. Dreamy. HARKER: Yes. (falling under spellVAMPIRE WOMAN: Yes. Dreaming of love, perhaps? HARKER: A dream, a vision froVAMPIRE WOMAN: One dreams of love, and longHARKER: Yes. No, I have a loveVAMPIRE WOMAN: And what is she called, your love?HARKER: She… Nina. Nina! VAMPIRE WOMAN: NINA! Shall I come neareHARKER: I… (inVAMPIRE WOMAN: Has she hair like this, your love? HARKER: Yellow, like thVAMPIRE WOMAN: Would you like to touch? HARKER: Yes! VAMPIRE WOMAN: And I lean over you. So,HARKER: I… I… can’t. VAMPIRE WOMAN: Has she eyes, like me, yoHARKER: Oh, dark… almost rubies. VAMPIRE WOMAN: And full lips like these? HARKER: Rich. Rich. ReVAMPIRE WOMAN: And her smile, my love.

ER: The whitest teeth. The sharpest. VAMPIREHARKER: I… yes… yes. VAMPIRE WOMAN: Then I wil

dreamed. First… my lips… to your throat! (MUSIC)


VAM ers impatient?

! How dare you, while I forbidden .

r loved. can love. When I am done with him, you shall kiss him

ur will. Now, go. I must awaken him, for there is work to be done.

DRAC

room. A sweet horror in my heart, some grim myself. Why do I remember tales of the

aintily… and… drink?

HARK

(SFX: LS THAT

. An animal. Why does it sound like… like

guy and the wolves are coming must get out there, I must help her!

You have her blood! Now give me my baby!

VAMPIRE WOMAN: (sinister laugh) My sisters. HARKER: Beautiful. Beautiful.

PIRE WOMAN: Are my sistVAMPIRE SISTER: Go on. Yours is the right to begin. VAMPIRE WOMAN: He is young and strong. There are kisses for us all. VAMPIRE SISTER: Yes. Kisses for us all! (she lounges) DRACULA: Aaaarg. How dare you touch him

it? Beware how you meddleVAMPIRE WOMAN: You, yourself, never loved. You neveDRACULA: Yes. I, too,

at yoVAMPIRE WOMAN: Are we to have nothing for tonight?

ULA: (triumphant) YES! VAMPIRE WOMAN and VAMPIRE SISTER: (laughing) (SFX: BABY CRYING) (MUSIC) HARKER: I have awakened in my

desire I dare not confess to Vampires, who sink their sharp… white… teeth… d

WOMAN: (from outside) THEIVES! THEIVES! ER: A woman!

WOMAN: Please, monster, give me back my child! HARKER: Her child? My God! WOMAN: My child! My child! Give me back my child!

MAN/ WOLF HOWL FOLLOWED BY WOLF HOWCONTINUE UNDER SCENE)

HARKER: That cry. A wolfDracula?

WOMAN: Go back to your graves! HARKER: What is she saying? The wolves! That

out of the forest! I WOMAN:(SFX: DOOR RATTLING)


HARKWOM

ened again. Although I tried all the day, there is no s and the cliff.

rtsick, I was shaving, using the mirror from my traveling

y young friend.

DRACHARK

A: This mirror is the wretched thing that has done the mischief! Foul irror) (pause) Our business will be

Tomorrow, I go to England. If you care to

HARK s sharp, white teeth. What manner of being is this, , in a mirror, has no reflection?

HARKht be saved. There is one door I haven’t tried, the door to

ER: My door! Locked! My God, he rules the world! AN: GIVE ME MY CHILD! MY CHILD!

(SFX: WOLF HOWLS) (MUSIC) HARKER: My door has op

escape from this part of the castle. No way but the windowAt nightfall, heacase.

DRACULA: Well, mHARKER: (gasps) DRACULA: Mr. Harker! HARKER: Wha… I did not see you behind me, I… cut myself. DRACULA: Blood! HARKER: (startled) DRACULA: BLOOD ON YOUR FACE! HARKER: Wha… (choking) what are you doing?

ULA: BLOOOOD ON YOUR FACE! ER: (still choking) Your hands, take away your hands. My throat. (he is

released) DRACULA: (calm) What is this… you wear on your breast? HARKER: (recovering) What? A gift. A crucifix. DRACUL

vanity! Away with it! (throws the mcompleted tonight, Mr. Harker. listen at the window, you may hear when the window strikes the stones below. You may. ER: He smiled, with hi

who(MUSIC) (MUSIC: THE GYPSIES SINGING)

ER: The Szgany (SIG-AHN’-YA) in the courtyard, the Gypsies. If I can reach them, I mighis quarters, Dracula’s.

(MUSIC)


HARK(pause(SFX:HARK s

the 30th. My last entry in this journal. I’ve sought every way of escape,

with the earth. Fifty of them, I counted them, with new dug from the graveyard floor. Now I know where he spends his

HARK ,

redder than ever, the flesh len, and from the corners of the mouth, trickling over the chin and neck,

(MUSHARK

ized t that hateful face, and it

. My limbs weakened, the

(MUSHARK ful boxes, I

here the work e.

ting?

(SFX: BANGING ON DOOR) HARKER: (echo) Open! Open the door, for God’s sake! Gypsies, I hear you in

there, you know I’m here! You know I was in there with… with that! Aren’tyou living men?

(SFX: EVIL VAMPIRE BRIDES LAUGHING) ER: Gypsies! Will you leave me with the dead?

) EVIL VAMPIRE BRIDES LAUGHING)

ER: Where are you? Go back to your graves! (pause) No use. The Gypsieare leaving. Taking him... Write it. Night coming, write it. Someone mayread and find him.

Maythere is none but the windows of these quarters which overhang the terrible cliff. I entered the Count’s rooms. The door led me to a deep stairwell, down to a ruined chapel, down to dark vaults of dusty coffins. No way out. And there was the smell. Old earth, newly turned. And boxes, large boxes, like coffins, half filledearthdaylight. Now I know what he is! For in the last box, I found… HIM!

(MUSIC) ER: Dracula, in the coffin. Alive or dead, I could not tell, but red burning

eyes opened, fastening on me. His youth seemed anew, the cheeks fullerthe white skin, ruby red underneath, the mouth swolgouts of fresh blood! IC)

ER: He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. This was the being I was helping to transfer to London with his teeming millions. I sea shovel left by the Gypsies. I raised it to strike aturned, turned as the eyes blazed hatred at meshovel fell, gashing the forehead, while I fled. IC)

ER: When I heard the Gypsies in the vaults, removing the dreadtried to return. They locked me out. Locked me in! I know they work, they earn his pay. Filling his coffins, transporting him to the sea, wI have done will bring the Vampire who breeds Vampires to my homWhat am I to become with those others wai


L VAMPIRE BRIDES LAUGHING) es are leaving. I am alone with the living dead, who, by

t is coming. I will

s onsters!

VAN DR. V . Asleep, Dr. Van Heling.

VAN eed. nd on Hamstead Heath this past

ourishment. A simple case. msterdam by such a noted

ren in your papers. When

VAN imple? .

VAN he

, how do you account? VAN HELSING: The wounds, for them

(SFX: EVIHARKER: The Gypsi

day, return to the earth of their own graves, and nighna. I will never see you again. choose the cliff. My beloved Mi

May the 30th. The last entry. On the last day of Jonathan Harker. The precipice isteep. But God’s mercy is better than that of those m

(SFX: EVIL VAMPIRE BRIDES LAUGHING) (SFX: WOLF HOWL) (MUSIC) (MUSIC CHANGES)

HELSING: This, then is your little patient, Doctor. INCENT: Yes, Dr. Van Helsing. But asleepQuite a simple case, Dr. Van Helsing. HELSING: To awaken the boy is no n

DR. VINCENT: No, certainly. He was fouSeptember 29th. Quite a simple case, Dr. Van Helsing.

VAN HELSING: His color, is it good. DR. VINCENT: Nourishment, Dr. Van Helsing, n

Hardly justifies a journey all the way from Aphilosopher and scientist, Dr. Van Helsing.

VAN HELSING: I’ve read of this, and the other childfound, he was so white, so bloodless?

DR. VINCENT: Quite so. A simple case. Now, please to remove the bandage from the throat. VAN HELSING:

DR. VINCENT: Yes. As you wish. There, you see? VAN HELSING: Ah, there are two tiny wounds. DR. VINCENT: A simple case, Dr. Van Helsing.

HELSING: Please, what it is that is so sDR. VINCENT: Malnutrition and anemia, sir. The parents deny it. Nonsense, Dr

Van Helsing. HELSING: And this lady, so beautiful, the newspaper story?

DR. VINCENT: Tut, sir. “The beautiful lady who lures the little ones away in tnight.” Hmph. Journalistic Tommyrot, sir.


r interest flatters me,

s so much for which we cannot account. In ch an illness as this. It was, of a

, a most sweet lady. ll. You may know him? Dr. Seward?

rivate asylum at Purfleet. SING: The same.

he case, sir e were babies. She died.

DR. Vr youth. She died, somehow, of

without end.

e feels nothing but all the world’s . When she

rt? Seward.

e you so sure? ned so violent like.

DR. S

DR. S ce the what?

DR. VINCENT: Scratches, Dr. Van Helsing, scratches. Yousir. But I cannot account for the honor.

VAN HELSING: Dr. Vincent, there iAugust, I have come to London to fight sufine young friend of mine, the dearly beloved fiancéeHe, my young friend, is a Doctor as we

DR. VINCENT: Do. John Seward. Ah, yes. A student of mental disorders. I believe he has a p

VAN HELDR. VINCENT: And what was the outcome of tVAN HELSING: With our knowledge, our science, wDR. VINCENT: A pity. The cause? VAN HELSING: The cause? That I should wish to know.

INCENT: Anemia, Dr. Van Helsing? Her blood, it was as rich as heVAN HELSING:

losing her blood. (MUSIC) MINNIE: (sobbing in background under scene) DR. SEWARD: She weeps, and weeps SWALES: No, love you, Dr. Seward, old Minnie don’t feel nuthin, I’m thinking. DR. SEWARD: No, Swales, you’re wrong. Sh

helpless, horrible sorrow. So many years have held her silentbegan to weep, I had hope for her.

SWALES: Yes. Years of staring, now another tin of sobbing. DR. SEWARD: When did she sta

thSWALES: August 13 it was, Dr. DR. SEWARD: How arSWALES: It was the night old Renfield give up his pets and turDR. SEWARD: How do you remember that? SWALES: I… it was the first night that your… poor Miss Lucy…

EWARD: Oh. Yes. How is Renfield tonight? SWALES: Still quiet, with his pets as he’d been since the, uh… the, uh…

EWARD: Sin


SWAL I… don’t you, eh… haven’t you…

ield, he’s been asking to see you. But I didn’t like to disturb h all your troubles…

ny of them. What else

(SFX:

SWAL

DR. S Open the door. I’ll call if I need you.

SE)

octor.

ply of string to maintain their faithfulness to their master? u misapprehend the significance of my future

DR. S

gar to catch your flies. What became of your friendly little flies?

e family of spiders. Did

by some skill of your own, you’ve enticed this goodly

RENF ctor, a harsh accusation.

SWALES: The… the funeral, sir. DR. SEWARD: What?

ES: Dr. Seward, sir,DR. SEWARD: (getting impatient) What is it, Swales?SWALES: Old Renf

you. What with… what witDR. SEWARD: (interrupting) By all means, I’ll see him, a

have I now? DOOR CLOSE)

(SFX: MINNIE CRYING STOPS) ES: If it were me, I’d be finding my consolation by the pint. A pity, you’ve

nothing but loonies. EWARD:

SWALES: Yes, sir. (SFX: DOOR OPEN & CLODR. SEWARD: Well, Mr. Renfield, you wish to see me? RENFIELD: Ah, yes. Yes, indeed, Doctor. I have the temerity to beg your

indulgence a very great favor, DDR. SEWARD: Shall I be permitted to guess? Your little colony of sparrows has

exhausted your supRENFIELD: Ah, no, sir. No. Yo

practice. EWARD: Well. How may I help you, Mr. Renfield?

RENFIELD: A kitten, sir. DR. SEWARD: A kitten? That would be rather irregular, Mr. Renfield. I gave

you suRENFIELD: Oh, they all flew away. DR. SEWARD: And somehow you collected a handsom

they all fly away? RENFIELD: Possibly, possibly. DR. SEWARD: Now,

collection of sparrows. Do you tire of them, by chance? IELD: A harsh accusation, Do


sk for a kitten. Mr. Renfield, where is all this going to

can play with, and

I’ll have to think it over.

Helsing.

DR. SVAN DR. S

e.

VAN

s only discovered late in the morning under a

ry of being lured away by the "bloofer lady". Doctors noticed

DR. S

DR. SEWARD: Now you aend?

RENFIELD: A kitten. A nice little sleek playful kitten, that Iteach, and feed, and feed, and feed.

DR. SEWARD: I’m afraid(SFX: KNOCK ON THE DOOR) (SFX: DOOR OPEN) SWALES: Begging your pardon, Dr. Seward, but the old gentleman from

Amsterdam is asking for you. DR. SEWARD: Dr. VanSWALES: That’s him, sir. DR. SEWARD: Van Helsing in England. Why? RENFIELD: A kitten, sir. A kitten to play with and…feed? (MUSIC) VAN HELSING: Ah, my so loyal young friend, how is it with you?

EWARD: As well as can be expected. HELSING: Such a terrible thing, one does not quickly forget. EWARD: What brings you to England?

VAN HELSING: This. DR. SEWARD: Westminster Gazette? You turned journalist? VAN HELSING: No. No, my friend. Read. Read herDR. SEWARD: “The Hampstead Horror…” Really, Van Helsing.

HELSING: Read. Read. DR. SEWARD: (sighs) We have just received intelligence that another child died

was missed last night. It wafurze bush at the Shooter's Hill side of Hampstead Heath. The Child was terribly weak, and quite emaciated. When partially restored, it told the now familiar stothe same tiny wounds in the throat.

VAN HELSING: Well? What do you think of that? EWARD: It’s like… Lucy’s.

VAN HELSING: And what do you make of it?


VAN HELSING: Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion

d!

VAN

VAN oat thus, for where then was the blood?

John. Yet you do not let your eyes see ife. Can you tell me, for example, why, in

e at night and open the veins of cattle

. You mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a

iend John. What I know is this. Our knowledge, our rrible thing. So for this past month, I

, and points the way to a grim

DR. S with me.

? Tomb? What tomb? ’s.

DR. SEWARD: Make of it! Make of it? How should make anything of it? If I could make anything of it, Lucy would now…

of what poor Lucy died of? DR. SEWARD: Must we go one discussing what she died of? She died! She die

She died! HELSING: Ah, my poor friend.

DR. SEWARD: (composing himself) I beg your pardon. She died of nervous frustration, following on great loss or waste of blood.

VAN HELSING: And the blood, how lost or wasted? DR. SEWARD: Haven’t we maddened ourselves enough trying to solve that

fantastic riddle? HELSING: You are right. Night after night, a loss of blood. And the thrwound, it could not have been lost Nowhere.

DR. SEWARD: No. Nowhere. Can’t we forget it? VAN HELSING: You’re clever, friend

that what is outside your daily lthe Pampas, there are bats which comand suck them dry?

DR. SEWARD: Good Godbat?

VAN HELSING: No, frscience, left us as a baby before this tehave had to resort to mythology, to the dark, whispered memories of humankind. This only supplies the answerbattle which you and I must fight. EWARD: I fail to understand you.

VAN HELSING: First I must give you proof. Tonight you must comeDR. SEWARD: All right. But where? VAN HELSING: To the tomb. DR. SEWARD: TombVAN HELSING: LucyDR. SEWARD: Lucy’s? (SFX: DOOR OPENS)


ation, my reason upon your

d he’s in a dangerous mood.

SWAL eward…

RENFIELD) rd, by the gate to old Carfax.

What’s he started? iers cart.

derstand this. r of disorder is it, this poor man?

a zoophagous —an eater of life.

GUAR

RENFIELD: Robbers!

SWALES: Dr. Seward, sir, Mr. Renfield, he’s turned violent again. DR. SEWARD: (not hearing) I… Van Helsing. VAN HELSING: Friend John, I throw my reput

mercy. Let me give to you proof. SWALES: Please, sir, he’s broken out, anDR. SEWARD: (recovering) What? Oh, yes, I… I’m coming. VAN HELSING: Friend John, you know me. DR. SEWARD: Yes. VAN HELSING: Ah!

ES: Dr. SDR. SEWARD: I’m coming. (MUSIC) (SFX: COMMOTION, SOUNDS OF MEN STRUGGLING WITH SWALES: This way, Dr. SewaDR. SEWARD: I hear that. SWALES: Took after two men coming out of the currDR. SEWARD: I don’t unVAN HELSING: What manneDR. SEWARD: I call it VAN HELSING: Eater of life? DR. SEWARD: Many flies to a spider, many spiders to a sparrow. He eats the

sparrows. SWALES: The attendants are having difficulty, sir. DR. SEWARD: I see that Carter’s men help from a great distance. SWALES: He banged the Carter’s men up something wicked, sir.RENFIELD: (wails) Thieves!

D: Hold his legs, sir! GUARD #2: It’s difficult, I’m practicing the minuet. RENFIELD: Murderers! GUARD: That’s it, hold him!


RENF

not say he eats life?

, are in no great

GUAR ot rightly speaking, Doctor. But then, them boxes as we was

strength being spent on them, we’d make sort work of him.

Well, I thank you kindly, sir. We do sympathize with you and the poor .

RENF ! MY LORD, MY MASTER, WILL YOU DESERT

DANTS ARE SUDDENLY QUIET) ou will come with me, as you

y so quiet? What’s he staring

ir. But that there bat, flying away in the sun.

DR. S , we’ve come into the graveyard like ghouls by night.

y, all your life you have honored me. Now…? My God. My Lucy.

DR. SEWARD: Mr. Renfield! Mr. Renfield! IELD: They shant rob me. They shant murder me. I’ll fight for my lord and master!

(SFX: ATTENDANTS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE) DR. SEWARD: There’s nothing to be done with him. Get the straitjacket on him. VAN HELSING: Lord and master? Did you DR. SEWARD: It’s beyond me, Professor. Only once before has he had a lord

and master. Otherwise only flies. You are the men the patient attacked? GUARD: Attacked, is it? Murder is the word. There’ll be actions and damages

over this, I can tell you. DR. SEWARD: Now, surely two strong Carter’s, like yourselves

danger from a feeble, sick man. D: Well, n

removing them from Carfax full of earth is no lightweight. If it wasn’t for our

DR. SEWARD: Well, I’m sure it’s thirsty work, and perhaps… GUARD:

gentleman, sirSWALES: They’ve got him, Doctor.

IELD: (wails) AAHHHME? OHHHH! Noooo, no varlet, I do it myself!

DR. SEWARD: Get him into his cell. (RENFIELD AND ATTENVAN HELSING: And now the sun sets. Y

promised? DR. SEWARD: Yes, yes. Why is Renfield suddenl

at? SWALES: Nothing that I can see, s(MUSIC) (SFX: CRICKETS)

EWARD: Van HelsingDon’t even know why.

VAN HELSING: John boDR. SEWARD: Well… There’s our tomb.


. ll open.

ND DOOR OPEN)

. I want to remember her as she was. No! . Even more so

d? O THE CRYPT)

SING: The coffin will open.

DR. S acket beside Renfield?

(SFX:

VAN

VAN

ar dawn, we cannot have much longer now to wait. It’s only that I spend my life with the mad that has kept me from

es.

VAN HELSING: Come. DR. SEWARD: You can’t open the doorVAN HELSING: The door wi(SFX: CLANKING LATCHES AVAN HELSING: You see? Come. DR. SEWARD: Oh no, no, I can’tVAN HELSING: You are a doctor. You must know why she died

you may be revenged. DR. SEWARD: RevengeVAN HELSING: Come.(SFX: FOOTSTEPS INT(SFX: ECHO) DR. SEWARD: How will you open the coffin? VAN HELDR. SEWARD: Wait! Don’t! VAN HELSING: You must see.

EWARD: You want to put me in a straightjVAN HELSING: You must see!DR. SEWARD: My God, man, that’s Lucy in there! Don’t you...

PULLING NAILS FROM CRATE) VAN HELSING: Easy. DR. SEWARD: (gasps)

HELSING: Is it? DR. SEWARD: Gone. She’s gone. What have you done with her?

HELSING: Trust me, please. I will show you. (MUSIC) VAN HELSING: It is neDR. SEWARD:

leaving you hours ago here at gravestonVAN HELSING: You will see.


to fill her room garlic flowers—great heavens, garlic flowers—I knew you were going

thinks that flowers by night not good. Ah.

wn because I hope to save the

whispering) Look!

an. In a white dress. er a sleeping child.

DR. S Lucy!

find her anywhere. She vanished. by the door, she must come. The child is all right.

alive. Alive! ad. Only lives the body.

VAN HELSING: Notice the blood red lips, the teeth have altered, somehow they

DR. SLUCY

DR. SEW

DR. SEWARD: That last night, when your only treatment waswithmad.

And her mother, poor soul, she came in and she removed the VAN HELSING: garlic flowers. My first suspicion, my last attempt to save your Lucy. Hermother, she

DR. SEWARD: You say dawn. I give you till damind that has meant much to me. But when dawn…

VAN HELSING: (interrupts, DR. SEWARD: (gasps) (MUSIC) DR. SEWARD: A womVAN HELSING: You see? She is carrying with hDR. SEWARD: What’s she doing to it? VAN HELSING: This is the proof. Carefully observe, her lips to the throat.

EWARD: Lucy! It’s Lucy! She’s alive! (calling)(MUSIC) DR. SEWARD: (out of breath) No. I couldn’tVAN HELSING: You wait

You saw? DR. SEWARD: Yes. But Lucy’sVAN HELSING: Oh, Lucy, she is deLUCY: (hauntingly) Johnny! DR. SEWARD: Here she comes. LUCY: Johnny! DR. SEWARD: Lucy! VAN HELSING: Slowly. Observe. Is it Lucy? DR. SEWARD: Yes. Beautiful. Alive. Even more beautiful.

always protrude, the eyeteeth, and the eyes, red. EWARD: She was… drinking that child’s… : Johnny! My arms are hungry for you.

ARD: Oh, Lucy.


face. he goes. Into her grave.

VAN n, there is much here that you and I as men of ieved. Tonight, this the crucifix has been our

DR. SSWALDR. S

DR. S an’t see her! Tell her to go away! Get out of here!

R CLOSE) : All right, Van Helsing. You’ve proved everything. Now what?

are the living dead.

tion.

ot f cunning more

brute—the rat, the owl,

LUCY: Come, and we can rest together. VAN HELSING: Slowly, Lucy! LUCY: (is startled and shies away.) VAN HELSING: Ah, this you do not like. DR. SEWARD: Van Helsing. Her face. VAN HELSING: This you cannot pass. Return to your tomb, the sun it comes. DR. SEWARD: Her VAN HELSING: See, sDR. SEWARD: Twisted with rage, like and animal, like a fiend. What did you

do? HELSING: Ah, friend Johscience never have belsalvation.

My God. There was… blood on her mouth. DR. SEWARD: (MUSIC) SWALES: Begging your pardon, Dr. Seward.

EWARD: What is it, Swales? ES: There’s a lady to see you, sir. She says her name is…

EWARD: Don’t know her. Never heard of her. I’m busy. SWALES: I’m sorry, sir, but the lady was most insistent…

EWARD: I tell you, I cSWALES: Yes, sir. (SFX: DOODR. SEWARDVAN HELSING: To me, too, it is so difficult to believe what we have seen.

There DR. SEWARD: Vampires. VAN HELSING: So fails us our science. To go upon, we have only tradiDR. SEWARD: Superstition. VAN HELSING: There is, among us, a vampire who works this evil. He does n

sting and die, the vampire, he becomes more strong. He is othan mortals, for his cunning is the growth of ages through which he does not die. He is a brute. And he may command the


, the Vampire. ucy. And how does tradition tell us we can deal with this?

I will show you!

) Give me the bag. ir

ust be done. Set up the lantern

rk? Yes. by the garlic flowers.

DR. SEW

. Strange medicine.

them in the grave, to make intolerable enter into it.

t. ll not be vampire. Open the coffin.

…

DR. S

the bat, the wolf. His love is the living, and his food is their blood. When his prey die, they, too, become the living dead

DR. SEWARD: Yes. LTell me, and I’ll do it.

Good. I will tell you.VAN HELSING: (MUSIC) (SFX: ECHO) VAN HELSING: The grave diggers have gone. They are observed. Close the

door. (SFX: METAL DOOR CLOSE) DR. SEWARD: The tomb of the Westenra family. If they know what… VAN HELSING: (startled) What’s that? (pauseDR. SEWARD: If these others who sleep here knew the purpose to which the

w that one of their relatives… tomb is to be put, if they kneWe have yet to do which had mVAN HELSING:

there on that other coffin so we may see to work. DR. SEWARD: To woVAN HELSING: And here, (SFX: WOLF HOWL)

ARD: What was that? VAN HELSING: A dog? Heh, heh, heh. DR. SEWARD: What are you laughing at, Van Helsing?

I was thinking of my friend in his Holland greenhouse who sent VAN HELSING: me these flowers

DR. SEWARD: What for? VAN HELSING: When we are done we lay

the grave to the vampire who must ever by dayDR. SEWARD: So Lucy may never be at resVAN HELSING: You forget then she wiDR. SEWARD: (hesitates) IVAN HELSING: Open the coffin! We must bring to her peace.

EWARD: Yes. (SFX: COFFIN OPENING)


is those the lips I kissed.

DR. SVAN DR. S

mallet, the pointed wooden stake.

VAN Yes. I…the stake. Where?

Through the heart, right through, and she will have peace. Now, allet.

es. hould be the one…

er, her career has just begun. Those children, they are ch the worse. If she live on, UnDead, by her power over them

become as her. But if she die in truth, then all cease.

And, yes, she will know, that it is his hand that freed her, the that loved her best. Now… let it be done.

. And let perpetual light shine

TAKE)

asps and cries out)

DR. SEWARD: (sorrow, to himself) Ohhh. The strange, terrifying beauty. Is threally Lucy? Are

VAN HELSING: It is and it is not. Do not think. You’re still willing? EWARD: Yes. No one else has the right or the duty. I’m ready. HELSING: Then in the bag you will find what you need. EWARD: Yes.

VAN HELSING: TheDR. SEWARD: You are… very methodic.

HELSING: Don’t think, just do. Take them. DR. SEWARD:VAN HELSING: The heart. The heart! DR. SEWARD: The heart.VAN HELSING:

take up the mDR. SEWARD: The mallet, yVAN HELSING: No, this is wrong. I sDR. SEWARD: No! She is mine. No one will do this to her but me. My God,

how I loved her. VAN HELSING: Rememb

not yet so muthey come to her, theyThe tiny wounds of the throat disappear, the children play not knowing of this, and the soul of the poor lady whom we love shall be free.

DR. SEWARD: Yes. VAN HELSING:

hand of him (MUSIC) VAN HELSING: Eternal rest, give to her, oh Lord

upon her! (SFX: HITTING S(MUSIC PULSE) LUCY: (gDR. SEWARD: Oh, dear God, I can’t.


e. She shall not fear the evil herein!

(MUS

VAN oh Lord, the souls of all the faithful departed from

y the full beatitude of the light eternal.

t you, lord and Master! I am here to serve you, Lord

RENF hey’re nothing to me. Let me, if you will, sir, Dr. Seward’s inestimable company?

ctor’s sick today. And if you ask me, I don’t blame him. se nice pleasant little sparrows, so

Now what?

ou, Mr. Renfield, I do my best to keep up appearances.

SWALMINA

VAN HELSING: You will do it! Would you leave her in torment? The just shall be in everlasting remembranc

(SFX: HITTING STAKE) IC PULSE)

DR. SEWARD: (grunting) HELSING: Absolve, every bond of sin.

(SFX: HITTING STAKE) (MUSIC PULSE) VAN HELSING: And by the help of thy grace, let he be found worthy to escape

the sentence of vengeance! (SFX: HITTING STAKE) (MUSIC PULSE) VAN HELSING: And to enjo(MUSIC) RENFIELD: Master! I awai

and Master! Remember me! SWALES: Now, then, what’s all this, Mr. Renfield? Why not play with your little

sparrows and give us a rest? IELD: I’ve eaten them. Tenjoy a moment of

SWALES: The DoShame on you, Mr. Renfield. All tho

chipper and friendly.RENFIELD: Aaaaaaahhhh Madam, I am honored indeed. SWALES: RENFIELD: What incomparable elegance, what gentle dainty charm. SWALES: Why, thank yRENFIELD: I refer, insolent rogue, to the lady behind you!

ES: Oh, her. (chuckles) Ladies are always following me about. : Are you Dr. Seward?

SWALES: Oh, bless me. MINA: Oh. It’s you again.


see you. How id you get in? It’s about my husband. (starting

rder. It haunts me, it terrifies me!

eling better perhaps? Possibly ive…

e invitation. But he is cunning. We must trace

watch so intently?

VAN HELSING: Each moment of her life, from the moment of the first sign, the s, this you must trace and study for

friend John?

(SFX: SS BREAKING)

DR. S at! VAN

Seward, are you all right, sir? you, Swales. I just shot a bat.

Swales, who is this young lady? the shot. She would follow me.

t?

SWALES: Yes, it’s me again, and the Doctor can’tMINA: I walked in. And I must see Dr. Seward.

to get emotional) His mind. Some diso. You must let me see him

RENFIELD: ROGUE! MINA: (startled) RENFIELD: Would you let a lady weep? SWALES: (giving in) All right. I’ll ask him again, mum. (MUSIC) VAN HELSING: John. Friend John. You are fe

you should to your bed return, another sedatDR. SEWARD: No, no. VAN HELSING: There’s so little we know. I have learnt the first time when he

enter a house, he must receiveach detail in the case of poor Lucy. We… What do you

DR. SEWARD: Nothing. Go on.

paleness, the dreams, the throat woundsome… some clue. What do you do with a pistol,

DR. SEWARD: THIS! GUNSHOT AND GLA

VAN HELSING: Friend John, what is this? EWARD: In the window! Those black ugly wings spread out. It was a bHELSING: Aahh. A bat!

(SFX: DOOR OPENS) SWALES: Dr. Seward, Dr. DR. SEWARD: Quite all right, thankMINA: Dr. Seward? DR. SEWARD:SWALES: I’m sorry, sir, I heardMINA: Dr. Seward, I believe it is not considered quite fashionable to point at a

gentlewoman with a pistol. DR. SEWARD: What? Oh, oh, pardon. What is it you wan


and. And your reputation has brought me

DR. S nd?

DR. S reshing. The world is full of people perfectly insane

Seward. It really is He had some terrible experience he

e, and now… oh you must help us, Dr.

at door right away.

DR. SMINA rs. Harker. Mrs. Jonathan Harker!

CARRIAGE)

heels, the horse’s hooves… inute.

you’ll see. But you’ll have

HARKER: Oh, yes. Yes, I know you’re right, Mina, we have to settle this and the al is part of it.

HARKACKGROUND)

HARK

r. And there’s nothing wrong with your ind. Do you think I could love and marry someone whose mind… What is

ou hear it?

MINA: Dr. Seward, it’s about my husbto him. EWARD: What about your husba

MINA: He’s perfectly sane, and he insists he is insane! EWARD: That’s refinsisting they are sane.

MINA: (slowly getting frantic and desperate) Please, Dr.driving both of us out of our minds. won’t speak of. He was ill a long timSeward. Prove to him he isn’t unbalanced.

VAN HELSING: Friend John, right now, back here, shut thMINA: Dr. Seward, please!

EWARD: What’s your name? : M

(MUSIC) (SFX: HORSE &HARKER: I didn’t mind the train down to Purfleet, but the carriage, the sound of

those wMINA: Oh, Jonathan, Darling, we’ll be there in a mHARKER: Unbearable. Unbearable! MINA: Oh, darling, please. Dr. Seward will help you,

to let him have that steel journal.

journMINA: Oh Jonathan, now that you’re facing this, everything will be right.

ER: Dear lovely Mina, so good to me, so pretty. (MUSIC: VIOLIN IN BMINA: No, no, darling, I’m not. I love you, that’s all.

ER: Even as I am. Tormented with the certainly… s nothing certain about it, except that MINA: No, no, darling. Sweetheart. There’

you’ve been ill, and you’ll be bettemit?

HARKER: Do y


ar it! Tell me! TELL ME, NINA, THAT YOU HEAR IT,

HARK meant the music. road.

e to your doctor a madman! Lock me

HARK?

MINAthe ghastly abyss, climbing,

I

MINA se. Say something.

G! ctor!

(SFX: DOOR OPENS)

DR. S Helsing! Get him in here, now, this instant! Hurry! Hurry,

MINA

Mr. you know about this… this Count

MINA: What? HARKER: You must he

TOO! MINA: Jonathan, what? Do you mean the music?

ER: (signs, relieved) Yes, I… I MINA: It’s only a Gypsy camp out there by theHARKER: Only a… Gypsy camp? Take m

up! (MUSIC)

ER: Well, Dr. Seward, you read it. I haven’t even allowed Mina here to see it. All those experiences, they’re real to me. Everything so real. Well: Well, Doctor?

HARKER: Oh Lord, I see myself hanging above climbing, none of it possible, but the brain fever, the Budapest hospital…know it happened! Therefore I must have a madness in me! : Doctor, plea

(pause) DR. SEWARD: (calling) VAN HELSINMINA: DoDR. SEWARD: (echo) VAN HELSING! SWALES! SWALES, YOU RASCAL!

SWALES: Yes, Doctor, what is it? EWARD: Canwhat are you standing there for?

SWALES: Not me. Yes, yes indeed, at once. : For the love of Heaven, Doctor…

HARKER: (overlapping) It’s no use, Mina… DR. SEWARD: Now listen, you two are moving into my quarters here. You,

Harker, are going to tell me everythingDracula. Every contact you gave him, every solicitors name, every small detail you can rip up from your memory.

HARKER: Is that to be… part of the treatment?


Treatment? Heh. Jonathan Harker, you are as sane as I or the

(MUSDR. S : Mr. Renfield, you’ve made yourself very difficult with your

ceedingly busy. What is it you wish? Sugar for your

ard. I am in full position of my faculties. I must beg of you

thers. to leave, Mr. Renfield? What reasons?

DR. S

ward, do me the justice to bear in mind later on, that I did what I could

nd dear lady of whom we have become nd…

you, Dr. Van Helsing. e deal with one which

t

me to madness. He won’t do that again to any other.

HARK not well today.

DR. SEWARD:great Van Helsing himself. We need you, Jonathan Harker. And we’re going to war.

HARKER: War? DR. SEWARD: Yes, war on Dracula!

IC) EWARDinsistence when I’m exflies?

RENFIELD: Dr. Sewto release me.

DR. SEWARD: If that is true, in time, Mr. Renfield. LD: (pleading) No, sir, now. This request is not of first consequence to RENFIE

myself, but to the health, the welfare, the very lives of oDR. SEWARD: Why do you wish RENFIELD: (losing hope) If I tell you that, it will only convince you of my

undoubted madness. What can I say? EWARD: You have answered for me, Mr. Renfield. Perhaps I can serve you in some other fashion.

RENFIELD: (softly, lost hope) What can I say? (trying again). You will, I trust, Dr. Seto convince you tonight.

(MUSIC) VAN HELSING: And now, gentlemen, a

so foMINA: Thank VAN HELSING: Now we are ready to begin to act. But w

has survived many centuries, and, we must assume, many attacks. We musnot fail!

DR. SEWARD: We won’t. HARKER: He drove MINA: I’m… cold.

ER: Mina is VAN HELSING: It has been a strain for such a gentle one.


HARK

e the Count

DR. S

VAN fins, with the earth of his

my nerves, this ruined old house—the dark shadows, the ins. It’s Castle Dracula again.

g, he has the strength of twenty men. And where our windpipes are

es before. mpire is this, our Dracula,

o chose to trust him, to his solicitors, the shippers Carters, who unknowingly transported these travel things.

Renfield attacked those Carters.

DR. S

MINA: This scarf seems hardly enough. I’ll borrow a coat? ER: Take mine, of course.

VAN HELSING: We know that in life he was a brilliant man. A descendant of Atilla the Hun. We know, too, from our studies, he must bDracula that did his army abandon to the Turkish slaughter and did homeward flee to raise a new force and try again. EWARD: And we know from Jonathan, that he is at Carfax. Carfax! Nextdoor!

VAN HELSING: That is our move the next. Is he there? We will see. MINA: Please… be careful. Last night I… I dreamed. DR. SEWARD: Let him be careful now. (MUSIC) (SFX: ECHO) HARKER: 27… 28…29…30… (pause) There were fifty

HELSING: So these, then, are the boxes, the cofown grave, the vampire lair. Each coffin a lair.

HARKER: Did you hear something? DR. SEWARD: No. (SFX: RATS SCRAMBLING BEGINNING SOFTLY AND SLOWILY

GROWING) HARKER: It plays upon

stone walls, the coffVAN HELSING: It is well to be cautious. Our enemy not only has a magic

cunninof the common kind, we cannot have him as he can have us. He is dead.

DR. SEWARD: Van Helsing. We’ve seen those boxVAN HELSING: Yes, friend John. An uncommon va

so wily as to provide himself somewhere in London with twenty ways of escape and of hiding besides this old house, his headquarters. This, our friend Jonathan here, whand

DR. SEWARD: Renfield!VAN HELSING: Yes. Yes, Lord and Master was his cry.

EWARD: Renfield knows something about this. We’ve got to see him


s of his face, the high ridge of the awful color!

othing there. OUD NOW)

r. Seward!

Swales.

SWALDR. SVAN HARK ! (SFX:(MUSRENF

octor. Just a few minutes back. As I was ing round to light the lamps, the window bars torn open, the door flung

DR. S : There is no straightjacket, Mr. Renfield. about like that.

ust arouse him.

fice! D: …brandy…

: Mr. Renfield. Tell us.

HARKER: I thought I saw a face. DR. SEWARD: Where? HARKER: There, in the shadows. The highlight

nose, the red lips, the red eyes, the DR. SEWARD: There’s n(SFX: RATS ARE VERY LHARKER: Listen! (pause) Rats! SWALES: Dr. Seward! DHARKER: What’s that? DR. SEWARD:HARKER: Thousands of rats. Look, they’re coming! It’s him! He’s sending

them! ES: I must speak to him! It’s Mr. Renfield. Someone tried to murder him.

EWARD: Someone tried to murder Renfield? HELSING: What? You might think he’s back?

ER: Great heavens, I see a million naked eyes! Run! Run for your lives RATS DROWN OUT) IC) IELD: (groaning)

SWALES: This is how I found him, Dcominto the corridor, and the poor old loony…

RENFIELD: …jacket…. take off the straightjacket… (continues groaning). EWARD

SWALES: Poor devil, smashed VAN HELSING: We mSWALES: He must talk. RENFIELD: …brandy… DR. SEWARD: Swales. Brandy in my ofRENFIELDR. SEWARD(MUSIC)


at me window, as before. His eyes were fierce, like a

. He laughed with his red mouth, the white teeth, glinted in sent the flies. The great fat ones,

n I know it is starting to panic) I am a madman! And

es! Lord and Master! I gave you the

d? Renfield!

s dead, and there’s no doubt how. t the brandy. The poor old loony. He was a decent sort in

ng lady of charm?”

(MUS

DRAC bbit. MINADRAC

ey will be rich again. Your blood be my blood. My blood will be your blood. You will know in your

(SFX:VAN

RENFIELD: (groaning, almost delirious) The dogs howl, and the bats, him. Inthe mist, he stoodman’s with madthe moonlight. I was angry. Before hewith steel and sapphire on their wings. All lives. All red blood with years of life in it. “All these lives and more will I give you through countless agesif you fall down and worship me.” I invite him in. “Come in, Lord and Master. Enter.” Ha, ha. He laughs. He is in my room. Thenext to be a young lady of charm. (have me now a madman’s strength! Ytest… I gave you… (collapses)

DR. SEWARD: Renfien(MUSIC) DR. SEWARD: He’SWALES: I tried to ge

his way. VAN HELSING: Friend John? DR. SEWARD: Yes? VAN HELSING: What did he say? “It is next to be a youDR. SEWARD: Mrs. Harker! HARKER: Mina! Oh, Heavens, MINA!

IC) (SFX: ECHO)

ULA: Your skin is the snow. Your throat as soft as the quivering ra: (delirious, weak) Cold. I am filled with ice. ULA: I have kissed you. And I will kiss you again. I will come again.

And kiss again. MINA: Cold. Cold. DRACULA: Shall we warm your dream, beautiful one. You, too, will kiss. Place

your lips, your pale lips, to my throat. Thwill blood that I will come again, and you will seek me forever. DOOR RATTLES AND OPENS) HELSING: STRIKE HIM DOWN!

(screams) DRACULA:


(SFX:

DRAC aughing menacingly) T BUT HE DOESN”T DIE!

THE WEAPON HE FEARS!

AR IT, DO YOU NOT? YOU, WHO LIVE THIS CROSS, THE SIGN OF

E. nd menacing) YOU THINK TO BAFFLE ME? YOU!

NGE HAS JUST BEGUN. I HAVE SPREAD IT LL BY MY CREATURES, TO DO MY

ALS WHEN I WANT TO FLEE!

WINDOW! STOP HIM!

, the Carter

VAN HELSING: sh friend John would hurry. It ror.

it to your forehead, Jonathan, and Mina, I touch it to

MINA

HARKER: SHOOT HIM DOWN! GUNSHOT)

DRACULA: FOOLS! HARKER: GO AHEAD, SHOOT HIM!

ULA: (lDR. SEWARD: I SHOOVAN HELSING: I HAVEHARKER: BE CAREFUL, YOU’LL STRAIN FROM IT! VAN HELSING: OH, NO, YOU FE

IN ETERNAL DEATH, YOU FEARETERNAL LIF

DRACULA: (triumphant aWITH YOUR PALE FACES ALL IN A ROW LIKE SHEEP IN A BUCHER’S? MY REVEOVER CENTURIES! YOU SHABIDDING AND TO BE MY JACK

(SFX: GLASS BREAKING) DR. SEWARD: HE’S GONE THROUGH THE VAN HELSING: WE CANNOT STOP HIM! (MUSIC) VAN HELSING: Only friend John to return. Through the shippers

men, we have traced each coffin to its hiding place. We have polluted each with a garlic flower, and sanctified each with a holy crucifix. Now he has only Carfax. We will there catch him by daylight helpless.

HARKER: Unless Dr. Seward’s found him in his coffin in the Piccadilly House. Unless. Otherwise, I could wi

grows late, and each night is a terMINA: I’m cold. I’m not well. VAN HELSING: Precautions can we take. Each must have the protecting

crucifix. I place yours… : (gasps in shock)

VAN HELSING: What? d was touch the cross to… (gasps) HARKER: Mina, don’t be afraid. All he di


ehead?

: Look. Mina!

VAN rned… burned… : Burned into her forehead. A brand

han, Mina! you find him?

offins. I fixed them right enough, but… then I went

waited. I, too, have a score to settle. e has removed one.

etime in the night. Now we have no way to trace him. ping. He is escaping. Darkness. The smell of

pire on

d to the slaughter his helpless people, and fled home to

DR. SCome. All of us. We must together go to make the last

(MUSIC) into my hands just long enough to destroy that

nd ever to burning hell,

VAN HELSING: … her forMINA: It… burned. HARKERDR. SEWARD: (from out of room) Not now, Swales, not now. Take care of it

yourself. Van Helsing! HELSING: Bu

HARKERDR. SEWARD: Van Helsing, JonatHARKER: DidDR. SEWARD: Only the c

over to Carfax. HARKER: You should haveDR. SEWARD: There were only twenty-nine. Somehow h

SomMINA: (hauntingly trancelike) Esca

earth. Wagon wheels. VAN HELSING: What is she saying? MINA: I want to follow. I want to go! HARKER: Look what he’s done to her, my lovely. The marks of a vam

her poor throat. VAN HELSING: We must all keep together, always. What is the story? “When,

in life, he abandonetry again?” EWARD: He’s going to the seaport. To go home. To start all over.

VAN HELSING: desperate fight against this monster.

DR. SEWARD: Where to? VAN HELSING: If necessary, to Transylvania. To Castle Dracula!

DR. SEWARD: May God give himearthly life. If beyond it I can send his soul forever aI would do it!

(MUSIC) (SFX: WALKING INTO CRYPT)


O)

HARK m. SING: We must do this quickly, the sun is low.

MINAHARKMINAVAN DR. SVAN

ARD: Whatever it is, I’m ready. You want to pray for him, start

VAN HELSING: How his eyes burn. With most ferocious rage out of the coffin. HARKER: Don’t look at him! That was my mistake, just do it! VAN HELSING: (catching himself) Ah, yes, yes. Now the sun is lower, and soon

it will be too late. Now. Eternal rest, give to him, oh Lord. (SFX: HITTING STAKE) VAN HELSING: And let perpetual light shine upon him. (SFX: HITTING STAKE SEVEN TIMES) (MUSIC POUNDS WITH EACH HIT OF STAKE) DRACULA: (bloodcurdling scream and dies) (MUSIC) MINA: (back to her sweet self) Jonathan. Oh, Jonathan HARKER: Mina, darling. Your forehead, your throat. The marks of the vampire

are washed away. (MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Stage 49, item 30. Dracula, by Brahm Stoker. Dramatized for

radio by George Salverson, was produced and directed by Andrew Allen, with an original music score composed by and conducted by Lucio Agusini.

(SFX: ECHVAN HELSING: Dracula DR. SEWARD: In his coffin.

ER: We’ve got hiVAN HEL(MUSIC)

: What are you going to do? ER: Hush, Mina, darling, we’ve got him now. : I’m frightened!

HELSING: Friend John, I think you, especially, have the right. EWARD: I know just what to do. HELSING: First, I must remind you all that this is not vengeance. We set to rest a human soul.

DR. SEWpraying. For me, every blow will be for Lucy! What he made me do at her tomb.

CBC Stage Series - Dracula of 34

Starred as Count Dracula, Lorne Greene. As Jonathan Harker, Alan King. With Lister Sinclair as Van Helsing, Budd Knapp as Dr. Seward, Mavor Moore as Renfield, Alice Hill as Mina, Eileen Seaton as Lucy, Dianne Foster as the Vampire and Eric Christmas as Swales. The others, Tommy Tweed, Doug Haskins, Murry Westgate, Frosia Gregory, Marcia Diamond, and Lloyd Bochner. Sound by Fred Tudor and Alan Gilroy. Technical operation by Bruce Armstrong.

(MUSIC) ANNOUNCER: Stage 49 is from Toronto, Elwood Glover speaking. This is the

Trans-Canada Network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

originally aired 1949(sfx: wolf howl) announcer: when the spirit dies but the dead live, the dark...

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